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...Mice. In Albuquerque, N. Mex., Willie Salas casually pocketed a three-foot bullsnake which was sunning itself on the running board of a parked car, announced to popeyed spectators: "I've got mice in my cellar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 10, 1946 | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

...expected the Princeton crew, decisively beaten by Penn and Rutgers the week before, to come as near as it did to stealing the Crimson's three-foot lead for second place. At the same time that the Varsity's final sprint eked out its margin over the Tigers, it was narrowing the quarter-length of open water held by the Big Red at the end. M.I.T.'s last minute crab threw it more than 16 seconds behind the Harvard time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Measles Feared by Bolles as Cornell Crew Wins Race Saturday | 5/7/1946 | See Source »

...huge, super-secret "betatron"-which generates an X ray so powerful and dangerous that the entire apparatus must be enclosed in three-foot concrete walls-was completed a couple of years ago. Wartime security kept it hidden until last week. Even then, General Electric Co. did not tell quite all. But G.E. did give a fair description of how the great gadget works, and some broad hints about a few of the things that it will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 100 Million Volts | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

...three-foot wall recession will keep the pictures safely out of reach of the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Museum a la Wright | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

...September 1942, the dour, thickset man was first seen around Mrs. Marianna Mayer's James Street lodginghouse. His 12-by-16-ft. room on the parlor floor contained a daybed, couch, wardrobe, desk and a three-foot shelf of romantic German novels. Each morning he left the house at 8:30 for his job in Newark's Downtown Club. There he worked as a bookkeeper, and did not have even the opportunities a bus boy had to overhear talk among the club's members-mostly business executives engaged in making ships, radars, airplane parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: The Man with the Satchel | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

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